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US has a third world electric grid | 27 comments (27 topical, editorial)

Re: US has a third world electric grid (3.00 / 0) (#13)
by thefinis (thefinis@hotmail.com) on Sat Aug 30th, 2008 at 08:35:59 AM MST
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What a bunch of manure on some of that website. I only watched the one video about protecting Texas. If they compare an oil field to a wind farm they would choose to live in the wind farm any day. What is not really covered in much of this is how much the landowners get paid per turbine or the fact that if you sign a lease without getting what you want in it then you are the one to blame. You don't hear much fussing from the ranch owners who have the turbines only from the ones that didn't get them. Side note on this is that one large landowner in Abilene joined in a law suit against the wind farms then got offered a lease from a wind farm on another piece of his property, one guess on what he did. A lot of the bitching seems to be similar to folks that buy or build a home near an airport and then fuss about the noise or buy a lot in a subdivision and then complain about all the neighbors being too close.

There is a very real problem with the national grid and building wind farms etc is only adding to the problems. We need the grid reworked and large transmission lines built but that was needed even before large wind farms came into being.

Finis
Texas born and bred

US has a third world electric grid | 27 comments (27 topical, 0 editorial)

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